/**
 * Copyright 2005 The Apache Software Foundation
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
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package org.apache.hadoop.mapred;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.DataInput;

import org.apache.hadoop.io.Writable;

/** Reads key/value pairs from an input file {@link org.apache.hadoop.mapred.FileSplit}.
 * Implemented by {@link org.apache.hadoop.mapred.InputFormat} implementations. */
public interface RecordReader {
  /** Reads the next key/value pair.
   *
   * @param key the key to read data into
   * @param value the value to read data into
   * @return true iff a key/value was read, false if at EOF
   *
   * @see org.apache.hadoop.io.Writable#readFields(java.io.DataInput)
   */      
  boolean next(Writable key, Writable value) throws IOException;

  /** Returns the current position in the input. */
  long getPos() throws IOException;

  /** Close this to future operations.*/ 
  public void close() throws IOException;

}
